My Mum works for a charity that I shall not name, to protect the guilty. Brought in as an outside consultant initially, after she'd retired. So works from home, but on a secure system.
This requires VPN access. Which they couldn't set up for her unless she came into an office for it. Fair enough. However to be able to come into the office and have her pooter set up she'd need a network login (obviously). In order to have a network login she had to do three or four of those God-awful online training thingamijigs. The ones where the video crashes in between video bollocks and multiple-guess bollocks - and then makes you watch the whole pissing thing again before it will let you answer the stupidly easy questions you could have answered before you'd even seen it.
In order to have access to the training vidoes she required, you've guessed it, VPN access.
In order to get VPN access you had to...
Now it's time to refer to either Catch 22 or Flanders & Swann
Biting the hand that feeds IT
